The practice of trail-running can entail risks and the search for performance and/or pleasure on no account justifies the distortion of one’s, more or less long term, good health.

Each runner will be particularly vigilant so as not to take any doping product and not to resort to the abusive use of self-medication. They must take care not to exceed their limits to the point of affecting their physical or moral integrity.

2017 Congress

Presentation

Each year the ITRA's Annual General Meeting is the highlight of the life of our association. It physically, or through video-conferencing, brings together all the elected members of the ITRA (national representatives or steering committee members) and is open to everybody.

The Annual General Meeting defines, orients and controls the ITRA's general policy. It hears, each year, reports on the association's moral and financial situation, and on its diverse activities. It approves the previous year's accounts and votes on the forthcoming year's budget.

The 2017 Annual General Meeting will take place in Badia Prataglia, Italy, on June 11th 2017, the day after the 50km Trail World Championships.

Agenda

8:30 to 9:00 - Reception

9:00 to 10:00 - 1st Part9:00 Introduction, moral report - Michel Poletti president9:15 Financial report - Janet Ng treasurer9:30 Approval vote of the 2016 final results9:40 Adoption vote of the 2017 provisional budget9:50 Modification of the Statutes in order to set up the ITRA's address back in Switzerland

Who participates in the AGM?

Those people present at the AGM

Institutional members : this category of membership has not yet been activated due to current discussions with the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) concerning the official recognition of the ITRA.

Other participants

Steering committee

Commission presidents

Members of the commissions and all ITRA members may attend as observers (request to formulate to be made to contact@itra.run in the case of a physical presence, or the possibility of following the AGM live via the internet.)

Who can vote and how are the votes organised ?

Possession of votes

Institutional Members : 10 votes per member

Organiser member representatives : the number of votes is determined by the number of organiser members from the country they represent

Organisation of votes

The votes are organised by a ballot with a simple majority result from valid voting slips.

Election of the steering committee

Following the adoption of the new ITRA statutes (link to statutes) as of the Annual General Meeting held in Braga (Portugal) on October 29th 2016, a new steering committee will be elected for 4 years during the Annual General Meeting on June 11th 2017.

Composition of the steering committee

2 founding members

8 institutional members

8 organiser members

4 sports members (runners)

The president of the IAAF or their representative is an ex-officio member of the steering committee.

Who can be a candidate?

Any founding member may propose their candidature for the steering committee. Other candidates obligatorily, have to apply for the category « Institutional members » or « Organiser members » or « Sports members ».

In order to be a candidate for the categories « Institutional members » or « Organiser members », a candidate must occupy a managerial function, elected or salaried, centred within the member of the category concerned.

In order to be a candidate for the « Sports member category », the candidate must themselves be a Sports Member.

Who can vote and how are the votes organised?

For each of the categories Founding members, Institutional members, Organiser members or Sports members, their members on the steering committee are elected by secret ballot by all the members of their category who are present at the Annual General Meeting by a two round plurinominal majority election. An absolute majority is required for election in the first round. In the second ballot, the candidates who obtained the most votes for the remaining posts are able to be elected. They are eligible for reelection.

1st round results - Steering Committee elections - 21st June 2017

Candidates elected - 1st round

Founding members:

Jose Carlos SANTOS DOS MORAIS receives 5 votes, 100.00% of the total.

Michel POLETTI receives 5 votes, 100.00% of the total.

Institutional members:

Jose Antonio Martins FERNANDES receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.

Michel HUERTAS receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.

Pablo VEGA receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.

Piotr BETKOWSKI receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.

Richard BOLT receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.

Tito TIBERTI receives 7 votes, 87.50% of the total.

Rui PINHO receives 6 votes, 75.00% of the total.

Daniel PEREZ GARRIDO receives 5 votes, 62.50% of the total.

Organizer members

Cristina MURGIA receives 124 votes, 64.58% of the total.

Enrico POLLINI receives 112 votes, 58.33% of the total.

Mario LEAL receives 104 votes, 54.17% of the total.

Please find the final results of the 1st round at the following link :

In the "Institutionals" category , the correct amount of voters is 14 and not 16 as published by the website.Two account were created following technical issues. These account did not take part into the vote and have absolutely no influence over the vote's results.Therefore, the percentage of ballot return for the Institutionals category is 57.14% And the correct number of eligible voter ( all categories included ) is 75 and not 77,Therefore, the percentage of ballot return is 78,66%, for the whole election.